SMARTENERGY

District Energy

FINLAND

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Holistic optimization is important to have the customer products integrated to the available technologies and resources

Possible to minimise the overall costs and environmental impacts but providing reliable and comfortable services to customers

System level optimization is needed in investments and operation while using high-quality equipment

FINNISH ENERGY MODEL

OUR STRONGHOLDS

IOT and AI Finnish companies have

introduced smart applications

using artificial intelligence (AI) to

reduce heat losses of buildings.

BUILDING LEVEL

SUBSTATIONS

comprises heat exchangers,

pumps and various valves and

control systems.

DISTRICT HEATING

EQUIPMENTS

CONNECTIVITYOptimal design of the networks

reduces heat losses and optimizes

investments.

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Building an award-winning technology

Finnish District Heating and Cooling has been awarded as best practice in the world by

• International Energy Agency (IEA)• International District Energy Association

(IDEA) • Euroheat & Power• United Nations (UN)

• International Energy Agency: “Finland is the model of the world”

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5th generation of district heating

• World's largest heating and cooling plant in Helsinki producing heat and cooling in the same process.

• Extensive heat recovery solutions

• World leader in utilizing waste heat of process industry and datacenters

• Coal-free energy production by 2029

• Lahti – European Green Capital 2021• Carbon-neutral city by 2025

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BEST PRACTICES FROM FINLAND

District heating production plants

District heating network District heating market share in space heating

15000 km 46%900

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BEST PRACTICES FROM FINLAND

Network heat losses of production

District heating generation efficiency in Finland

District heating generation reliability

93% 99,98 %6-9%

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BEST PRACTICES FROM FINLAND

Three quarters of heat is produced by CHP

Profitability % of turnover without subsidies

Staff productivity(GWh/employee)

10-20 % 20%76%

THE 4 KEY CORNER STONES OF FINNISH DHC

Minimal heat loss

Minimal need for water replenishment

Maximal reliability

Low heat tariffs

High profits

No subsidies

Three quarters of heat is produced by CHP

High generation efficiency

High usage of RES in heat production

Low emissions

High share of CHP

EFFICIENT NETWORK

EFFICIENT PRODUCTION

FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

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GEBWELL

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Gebwell is specialised in environmentally friendly heating and cooling systems. The wide product selection includes heat pumps, district heating and cooling substations, energy accumulators, exhaust air heat recovery systems and hot water heaters. All products are designed and produced in Leppävirta, Finland.

Gebwell is biggest building level substation producer in Nordic Europe

www.gebwell.fi

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HELIOSTORAGE

COMPANY BACKGROUND

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

For real estate owners paying for expensive and polluting fossil based heating, the Heliostorage high temperature ground storage technology provides all year heating based on waste- or solar heat. Unlike heat pump systems, our environmentally friendly heating only has the running costs of a water circulation pump.

• Solar collector roofing

• Storage and recovery controller

• Borehole Thermal Energy Storage

• Project managment and - consulting

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HÖGFORS

COMPANY BACKGROUND

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

• Högfors is a 90 years old and the most experienced valve manufacturer from Finland.

• Högfors has delivered close to 30000 valves to District Energy applications around the world.

• District heating & District cooling valves in sizes DN200 – 1600 for critical applications

• Robust and maintainable construction for lowest total cost of ownership

• Partnership for products life cycle, from project design support to after sales services

• Local office in Beijing with highly trained technical service and maintenance personnell

www.hogfors.com

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KOLMEKS

Kolmeks is a family owned company and a world’s leading manufacturer of pumps and components. Our mission is to provide the best solutions with state-of-the-art products and services. Specialized in centrifugal pumps used in heating and air-conditioning systems.

The pumps are well designed and simple to use, carefree in maintenance, silent, durable and best of all, very energy friendly. Our driving philosophy to provide efficient reliability is manifested especially around our pumps.

Kolmeks pumps are typically used in district heating, industrial, heating-and cooling systems, as well as other clean water and other clean liquids circulating, pressure-boosting and similar applications.

All pumps are available with fixed and variable speed, either separate or integrated frequency converter.

Due to the use of many different materials and sealing solutions the pumps are increasingly used in different processes in the industry in general.

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OILON

COMBUSTION AND HEAT PUMP TECHNOLOGY

• Beijing has the lowest emission requirements for gas combustion in the world. 30mg/Nm3

• Oilon is specialized in low emission gas combustion and can reach the lowest emission requirements in the world. Only few companies in the world can do the same at this moment.

• Oilon has over 20 years experience in China and more than 10 000 burners delivered to China only.

• Emission requirements in Beijing are strict and pressure to clean the air is high. Oilon will help Beijing to solve the issue together!!

• Oilon has also solution and references for District cooling with heat pump technology.

• Oilon heat pump can also be used in many applications, e.g. food industry, process industry, sports arenas, heat recovery etc.

www.oilon.com

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PLANORA

YOUR PARTNER IN ENERGY MATTERS

• Planora has extensive knowledge, expertise and experience in municipal engineering design as well as industry and automation planning. Coupled with our comprehensive and sound project management, we offer an all-inclusive solution to energy planning.

• We combine planning, design and project management for a cost-effective, functional and productive solution.

• Our Iisi-Netti service expertly manages information and operations related to heat, electricity and water supply as well as biofuel production. The Iisi-Netti service is easy to use and accessible with any used end device that is connected to the internet, without the need to acquire extra software

• The customer data is processed and converted into an accessible form, Expert Data Base (EDB). The database provides up-to-date information for different applications and information systems. The retrieval of information from various databases and its use by different applications is based on the correct capturing of information as well as mastery of the user interfaces between different applications.

www.planora.fi

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SAVOSOLAR

COMPANY BACKGROUND

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Savosolar designs and delivers globally large scale solar thermal systems. Focus markets are district heating and cooling and industrial process heating, e.g. mining, paper, dairy and greenhouses.

• Internationally acknowledged most innovative company in the industry with the most efficient solar thermal collectors in the world

• Strong references in the most advanced large system market Denmark

• World class international team and extensive partner network to serve customers locally with turn-key delivery capability

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VEXVE

COMPANY BACKGROUND

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Vexve is the globally leading provider of valve solutions for the heating and cooling needs of cities and industry.

Developed for demanding applications, Vexve valve and control products and hydraulic control solutions are used in:

• district energy networks

• power plants

• internal heating and cooling systems of buildings